Garmin Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets hand-held, portable and fixed-mount global positioning system (GPS) enabled products and other navigation, communication, and information products for the automotive/mobile, outdoor, fitness, marine, and general aviation markets worldwide. It operates in five segments: Auto/Mobile, Outdoor, Fitness, Marine, and Aviation. The company offers a range of automotive navigation products, and various products and applications designed for the mobile GPS market; and outdoor products. It also provides training assistants for athletes; personal training systems designed for cyclists; watches designed for swimming pool use; fitness applications; and handhelds, network products and multifunction displays, fixed-mount GPS/chartplotter products, instruments, fish finders, radars, autopilots, VHF radios, marine networking products, and sounder products. In addition, the company offers GPS-enabled navigation, VHF communications transmitters/receivers, multi-function displays, electronic flight instrumentation systems, automatic flight control systems, traffic advisory systems and traffic collision avoidance systems, terrain awareness and warning systems, instrument landing system receivers, surveillance products, audio panels, and cockpit datalink systems. Garmin Ltd. sells its products through a network of independent dealers and distributors, as well as through original equipment manufacturers. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.